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Bird: also known as Aves or avian dinosaurs, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the world's most numerically-successful class of tetrapods, with approximately ten thousand living species, more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds.
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SEP 22, 2019Plants & Animals
Birds are often at the forefront of interest when it comes to wildlife enthusiasts and photographers. Sadly, new scienti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2019Plants & Animals
Lots of people are quick to dismiss animal intelligence as inferior to human intelligence, but let the record show that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2019Plants & Animals
A plethora of bird species prefer to migrate at night as opposed to during the day, and scientists have long wondered wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2019Plants & Animals
When you go for a walk at the local city park, you’re likely to see a high number of gray squirrels crawling in an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2019Plants & Animals
These young albatrosses must learn the official rules of ‘survival of the fittest.’ Once big enough, they wi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2019Plants & Animals
Researchers have long thought that songbirds unleash their colorful vocalizations involuntarily in response to activitie ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2019Plants & Animals
Many people don’t realize it, but animals can be particularly intelligent when it comes to matters of problem-solv ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2019Plants & Animals
When most birds take flight, their wingbeats cause a ruckus; this is typically a repetitive ‘swooshing’ nois ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 07, 2019Technology
Below the gaze of high-speed cameras, a tiny bird named Gary is awaiting the signal to fly over to a perch covered in Te ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 04, 2019Microbiology
There are organisms that can use the magnetic field of the earth to navigate, including animals like honey bees and migr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 29, 2019Plants & Animals
Residing at the coastlines of Southern Africa are a temperate penguin species dubbed the African penguin, and the Intern ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 28, 2019Plants & Animals
Millions of years before the dawn of humankind, dinosaurs walked the Earth. While they aren’t around today to tell ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 17, 2019Plants & Animals
Hummingbirds are captivating animals, not only because of their incredibly fast wingbeats, but also because they have on ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2019Plants & Animals
After a woman reported an oddly-behaving hawk in her yard, the New Hampshire Fish and Game department responded to the c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2019Earth & The Environment
The brown macroalgae Sargassum is not uncommon in the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, the Sargasso Sea on the western side of t ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 08, 2019Earth & The Environment
Interactions between domesticated species and wildlife often pose a threat because species can act as vectors for diseas ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 07, 2019Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 26, 2019Plants & Animals
Female Florida softshell turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but when it comes time to lay eggs, they’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2019Plants & Animals
Many of America’s major cities, such as Boston and New York City, are chock-full of wild pigeons. Some people enjo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 23, 2019Plants & Animals
When you’re just an itsy-bitsy spider, you tend to be particularly vulnerable to predation by the plethora of larg ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2019Plants & Animals
The wilderness has no shortage of food-stealing bandits, and that’s why the acorn woodpecker is so vigilant when i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 16, 2019Plants & Animals
Scientists have long been captivated by killifish because they tend to pop up in unexplained places with seemingly no ap ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 27, 2019Plants & Animals
Most vertebrates in the animal kingdom sport tails of some sort. Birds and fish use their tails as steering mechanisms t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 26, 2019Plants & Animals
Animal caretakers at the New England Aquarium were in for quite the surprise this past Winter after discovering that an ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 22, 2019
Plants & Animals
Birds are often at the forefront of interest when it comes to wildlife enthusiasts and photographers. Sadly, new scienti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2019
Plants & Animals
Lots of people are quick to dismiss animal intelligence as inferior to human intelligence, but let the record show that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2019
Plants & Animals
A plethora of bird species prefer to migrate at night as opposed to during the day, and scientists have long wondered wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2019
Plants & Animals
When you go for a walk at the local city park, you’re likely to see a high number of gray squirrels crawling in an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2019
Plants & Animals
These young albatrosses must learn the official rules of ‘survival of the fittest.’ Once big enough, they wi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2019
Plants & Animals
Researchers have long thought that songbirds unleash their colorful vocalizations involuntarily in response to activitie
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2019
Plants & Animals
Many people don’t realize it, but animals can be particularly intelligent when it comes to matters of problem-solv
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2019
Plants & Animals
When most birds take flight, their wingbeats cause a ruckus; this is typically a repetitive ‘swooshing’ nois
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 07, 2019
Technology
Below the gaze of high-speed cameras, a tiny bird named Gary is awaiting the signal to fly over to a perch covered in Te
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 04, 2019
Microbiology
There are organisms that can use the magnetic field of the earth to navigate, including animals like honey bees and migr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 29, 2019
Plants & Animals
Residing at the coastlines of Southern Africa are a temperate penguin species dubbed the African penguin, and the Intern
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 28, 2019
Plants & Animals
Millions of years before the dawn of humankind, dinosaurs walked the Earth. While they aren’t around today to tell
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 17, 2019
Plants & Animals
Hummingbirds are captivating animals, not only because of their incredibly fast wingbeats, but also because they have on
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2019
Plants & Animals
After a woman reported an oddly-behaving hawk in her yard, the New Hampshire Fish and Game department responded to the c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The brown macroalgae Sargassum is not uncommon in the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, the Sargasso Sea on the western side of t
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 08, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Interactions between domesticated species and wildlife often pose a threat because species can act as vectors for diseas
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 26, 2019
Plants & Animals
Female Florida softshell turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but when it comes time to lay eggs, they’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2019
Plants & Animals
Many of America’s major cities, such as Boston and New York City, are chock-full of wild pigeons. Some people enjo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 23, 2019
Plants & Animals
When you’re just an itsy-bitsy spider, you tend to be particularly vulnerable to predation by the plethora of larg
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2019
Plants & Animals
The wilderness has no shortage of food-stealing bandits, and that’s why the acorn woodpecker is so vigilant when i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 16, 2019
Plants & Animals
Scientists have long been captivated by killifish because they tend to pop up in unexplained places with seemingly no ap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 27, 2019
Plants & Animals
Most vertebrates in the animal kingdom sport tails of some sort. Birds and fish use their tails as steering mechanisms t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 26, 2019
Plants & Animals
Animal caretakers at the New England Aquarium were in for quite the surprise this past Winter after discovering that an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard